A survey was developed based on an adaptation of the resource used by the Association for Training, Research and Development of Entrepreneurship (AFIDE: Asociación para la Formación, Investigación y Desarrollo del Emprendimiento, in Spanish) in the project for the Entrepreneurial Potential of Latin American Undergraduates (PEUL: Potencial Emprendedor de los Universitarios de Latinoamérica, in Spanish). The results showed that more than three-quarters of the students acknowledged having initiative, being creative and innovative, and obtaining and managing information in order to make their own decisions. They also identified that they value flexibility and time management, and they feel confident and motivated by making uncertainty a tool that allows them to recognize mistakes and continue to pursue their projects.
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The spread of the Internet among the members of societies generated a series of hypotheses that have not been verified over time. For example, new opportunities would be opened in the international and local labor market for the less favored segments of the population, the digital gap between different social classes would be reduced, humanity would march towards a sustained development and safeguarding nature, new technologies would help a transparent and equitable financial management among citizens, etc. (Burton, A. et al., 2020; Yingsaeree, Treleaven & Nuti, 2010; Andriole, 2010) This has not been the case since the end of the 20th century until today.
Although human beings, due to their intrinsic nature, continue to be interested in these technological changes that favor human communications (Schneiderman, 2002), because they continue to relate them to the future, personal and community progress, environmental protection, etc, however, a large part of the world's population has found that there is only a flood of information online (Cerf, 2007) and that contemporary banking financial actions (Yingsaeree, Treleaven & Nuti, 2010), do not provide any solution to the relationship of trust between customers and banking institutions (Cipolla-Ficarra & Alma, 2015), or the promotion of youth employment, to name a few cases. The labor market continues to bet on lowering labor costs, using the panacea derived from ICTs, through the web, such as offshoring (Schaffer, 2006; Tambe & Hitt, 2010), business and market intelligence (Chen, 2010a; Chen, 2010b; Vixie, 2011), cloud computing (Kshetri, 2010), among many others. However, many places in the Americas remain at the crossroads of telecommunications and its derivations, already perfectly described, in the 1980s by Armand Mattelart and Héctor Schmucler (Mattelart & Schmucler, 1983). From the technological, sociological, educational and economic point of view, etc, there is an endless number of works related to this situation (Duening, Hisrich & Lechter, 2014; Bessant & Tidd, 2015), in addition to the classic problem of the transformation of the real economy into a digital economy (Pinker, Seidmann & Foster, 2002), but they are studies, carried out by teams of people who are exogenous to the local reality, and which do not exactly analyze the human being in his or her real context and interact daily with a diverse set of variables, as has been done in this research. In other words, study the local changes with a global projection, and not in the opposite sense.
Nowadays, profound changes are taking place that affect people's ways of being in the world. Vázquez & Mouján-Fernández (2016) state that among the founding factors of these changes are the decline of institutions, immediacy, image, and communications, which are determining factors in personal achievement. In addition, the market introduced a new alteration in the modes of existence given its logic where temporality is speed, bringing with it new ways of linking and being connected to the network.
No one can now doubt that the Internet has brought about one of the most profound changes that human beings have ever experienced, which is that the two axes that by definition have operated as the framework of the subject in its history, have become uncertain, such as space and time. As far as space is concerned, a new space has emerged, which is neither inside nor outside, it is not a specific place, but it is many places at the same time, which is far and which is near? that which is 200 meters away and offline or 20,000 kilometers away and online?. As for time, there is a new time that is characterized by speed and immediacy. It is the “no time”. All actions nowadays take very little time (communicating, booking a ticket, a hotel, obtaining a document, etc.) and where the concept of time “little by little” is replaced by that of “instantaneousness”, nothing more and nothing less than by the suppression of time. The scope of this conception is so significant that today in society, especially for young people, everything that cannot be resolved with a click, for many people becomes “impossible” (Vázquez & Mouján-Fernández, 2016).
Today's young people, also called “digital natives”, were born with technological devices at their fingertips which constituted their way of connecting with each other. They grew up with new conceptions of time and space. They do not need to adapt to immediacy or to chaotic occurrences because this is “their world”. Those are generations that can be called “global” (Vázquez & Mouján-Fernández, 2016).